Section 401 of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to identify and publish healthcare quality measures for children enrolled in the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) or Medicaid. CHIPRA also requires core measures to identify disparities by race and ethnicity, among other factors. State ...

Prolonged-release (PR) fampridine is approved to treat walking impairment in persons with multiple sclerosis (MS); however, treatment benefits may extend beyond walking. MOBILE was a phase 2, 24-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled exploratory study to assess the impact of 10mg PR-fampridine twice daily versus placebo on several subject-assessed measures. This analysis evaluated the physical ...

The latest report on MSIS 2000: Model Curriculum and Guidelines for Graduate Degree Programs in Information Systems introduced Career Tracks as one of the curriculum building blocks. A career track consists of four or more related electives that provides students an opportunity for specialization within information systems. This paper elaborates on the implementation and advantages of career tr...

• As described in more detail in Ruutiainen et al. (2015), 553 Finnish persons with MS (PwMS) drawn from the membership register of the national patient society completed a postal survey, which aimed at determining the economic and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) burden of MS in Finland. • Survey questionnaire included self-administered EDSS and MSIS-29. EDSS score ranges from 0 to 9 and...

The Mass Spectrometer and Incoherent Scatter radar (MSIS) model family has been developed improved since the early 1970's. most recent version of MSIS is Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) 2.0 empirical atmospheric model. NRLMSIS provides species density, mass temperature estimates as function location space weather conditions. models have long a popular choice thermosphere in research operations ...

The growth in the IT field has redefined the role of the IT manager. The furious pace of growth in global commerce facilitated by the Internet has led to greater governmental role in controlling and regulating E-commerce. Developments in technology have also led to a trend towards digitization of personal, commercial and governmental data. All of this has led to a plethora of laws, both domesti...

Change detection is a popular topic in remote sensing that generally constrained to two images captured at different times. However, the optimal type of image for change tasks has not yet been determined. The use only hyperspectral (HSIs) with low spatial resolution or multispectral (MSIs) spectral cannot obtain satisfactory results. In this paper, we propose fusion simultaneously HSIs and MSIs...

INTRODUCTION The purposes of the study were to evaluate the immediate damage to roots and periodontal structures after initial miniscrew implant (MSI) placement and the short- and long-term damage after MSIs were left in situ. METHODS The roots of the maxillary second, third, and fourth premolars of 7 mature beagle dogs were randomly assigned to undergo immediate, short-term (left for 6 weeks...

Although research has shown that multi-systemic interventions (MSIs) improve youth psychosocial functioning, MSI dissemination has been hampered by low levels of parent participation. The current pilot project was designed to examine the effectiveness of a brief motivational interviewing (MI) protocol to increase parental engagement in an MSI for youth suspended from middle and high school. Pre...